BK N 66

i was playing my cassette player and all of a sudden it stopped
playing. i ejected the cassette tape and noticed my tape had been
broken. i had a hard time getting the cassette tape out of the player
as it was stuck and would not eject. after fooling with it for quite a
while i finally got the cassette tape ejected out of the player.

i looked inside and did not see any pieces of broken tape inside?
however, i tried putting a new cassette tape in and it does not play?

i get no sound and was wondering what to do? how can i fix it and
would like to get it to play again. any help would be appreciated.

hopefully i wont have to take it to a audio installation place and have
to pay big bucks to get it fixed? it is a autosound cassette tape
player. it has been in the car for quite a few years and has always
seemed to work well. i hope its not tie for a replacement radio?

i know the technology has gotten a lot better overt the years and
everyone is going to CD players. maybe its time to take the plunge
and get a new unit? however i really dont want to spend the $$
right now. any suggestions will greatly help. i have a lot of
cassette tapes about a hundred of em and they have alot of nice old
rock and roll oldies but goodies on them. great cruisin music.

i really dont have the time to re record the cassettes on CDs at this
time. what a dilemma. hopefully there is a answer? thanks

MelWff

Remove the unit and open it. If your lucky you will find the obvious problem. You can hook up direct power from a battery.

Pilot Dan

You will have to remove the unit and open it up. If you are lucky, the old belt that drives the tape player (a fancy rubber band) broke and can easily be replaced and you are back in business.

Mike67nv

The world has gone digital on us!

I’ve had to upgrade too. You’ve resisted longer than most but the time may have come. Look at the iPod line, MP3 players or even streaming from a smart phone. It will take some time to digitize your music but once you do, you will have more options than you’ll care to explore.

Jerry at Electro-Design put an audio jack on my radio and I play everything on an iPod in my ’67.

Bluestripe67

It's time to upgrade. I chucked dozens of cassettes a few years ago, and last year, due too mechanical issues, chucked my CD player. All digital now via an Alpine head unit in the glove box. Asking a shop to investigate outdated technology is most likely going too get you a blank stair. Bite the bullet. Dennis

65GGvert

You'll probably find that the tape is wound very tightly around the small metal shaft that the rubber wheel runs against to feed the tape. I have been able to reach in with a small screw driver and get the tape started and then grab it with needle nose pliers or hemostats and pull it slowly with constant pressure so the flywheel attached to the pin will spin and unwind the old tape around it. The easiest way and sometimes the only way is to take the top off the player and unwind the tape. It winds so tightly that you can't even see it unless you know the shaft is supposed to be shiny metal and with the tape around it, it looks like a fatter shaft the color of the tape.

C-1 Generation 2

If the FM still plays good you could by SD card/flash drive reader that transmits an FM signal to any frequency you want. Load it up with oldies and plug it into the cigarette lighter.